The Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Lock-up.
The Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- patient-cinder-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- The Lock Up, Dimble Lane, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SK 072 421
- Coordinates
- 52.97635, -1.89392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lock Up is a lock-up building dating from 1819, located on the west side of Dimble Lane in Alton. It is constructed from rock-faced ashlar and features an ashlar dome topped with a cupola and a ball finial. The building has a circular plan and is a single storey high, with a door located on the north side. It is also shown on the Ordnance Survey map as the Round House.
Local climate
The Lock Up receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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